Laura Weiss

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

But also www.hhs.gov/press-room/h... sounds “good” but only supported by republicans…

NIH whistleblower details clash over childhood vaccines with Trump administration: "We became inconvenient" A former NIH official says she was removed after clashes over vaccines, accusing RFK Jr. and his deputies of posing "a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety."

Hmm, could be. I mean Jean Marazzo was “placed on involuntary administrative leave and told she would be transferred to the Indian Health Service” but this feels different. www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-whi...

(Also, Medicaid cuts are about to kneecap the Indian health service further than its already been defunded)

Something about this feels very ominous to me. The govt is demonizing places like New York but then abruptly sending its top public health people to areas with mysterious public health crises in red states (measles?)

Big Beautiful Bill' is deadly to vulnerable groups across the U.S. Work requirements, increased red tape, and reduced eligibility for safety net programs will disproportionately impact poor people

Trump’s health care cuts will negatively impact the communities that are already struggling most—people with disabilities, @lauralew105.bsky.social reports. When “people are dying in their districts,” lawmakers may then be compelled to recognize the government’s abandonment of vulnerable people.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

NPR Network logo at the bottom with white words on a black background that read WE WON'T BE SILENCED.

Day One

The number of people that go bankrupt every year from medical bills:

Canada - 0

Australia- 0

France - 0

Sweden - 0

Norway - 0

Spain - 0

Portugal - 0

UK - 0

Finland - 0

Iceland - 0

Germany - 0

United States - 326,000

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

"It's shameful ... that we live in the richest country in the world, yet we are cutting nearly a trillion dollars in lifesaving and life-sustaining health care for people who need it most."

Big Beautiful Bill' is deadly to vulnerable groups across the U.S. Work requirements, increased red tape, and reduced eligibility for safety net programs will disproportionately impact poor people

The Medicaid cuts will harm the most vulnerable and threaten to bring the already-failing healthcare system to its knees. Been at this one for a while @prismreports.org.
Thanks @newdisabledsouth.org @pnhp.bsky.social @soumya-goblue.medsky.social & more for comments
prismreports.org/2025/09/29/b...

Big Beautiful Bill' is deadly to vulnerable groups across the U.S. Work requirements, increased red tape, and reduced eligibility for safety net programs will disproportionately impact poor people

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is deadly to already vulnerable groups across the U.S., @lauralew105.bsky.social reports. Work requirements, increased red tape, & reduced eligibility for Medicaid & other safety net programs will disproportionately impact poor people of marginalized backgrounds.

That the government even has to subsidize premiums — and that they’re so unaffordable in the first place—is due to insurance company greed. www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/25/potential-government-shutdown-over-obamacare-tax-credits/86186415007/

😤 I feel this!!!

I’m at the New Yorkers Against ICE rally in Foley Square with hundreds of others.

Earlier today ICE agents threw a grieving wife of a detainee to the ground inside 26 Federal Plaza, just steps from here.

Elected officials @bradlander.bsky.social, @jumaane.bsky.social and others are speaking.

🫠

I looked for weeks from now… maybe I’ll call. Thanks!

Still not seeing them!

I'm struggling to contain my anger over the government's handling of the ICE shooting in Dallas - specifically, the refusal to publicly identify three human beings who were killed or seriously wounded

These monsters do everything possible to dehumanize refugees. We can't let them get away with it

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Frrrrr

If you think this is bad now, wait until new hires currently in the law enforcement training program — brought in during the admin’s white nationalist recruitment push over the past months — start actually hitting the streets. These are the folks who’ve seen all this and thought “that should be me”

YES FINALLY

Why universal COVID-19 vaccine guidance offers stronger protection than high-risk-only policies The US Scenario Modeling Hub’s nine-team ensemble projected COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths for April 2024 to April 2025 under six policy and immune-escape scenarios. Burden was similar to the pr...

Routine vaccination for COVID-19 reduces hospitalization and deaths much more than vaccinating only high-risk groups.
www.news-medical.net/news/2025092...

'Very mean squirrel' seeking food has sent at least 2 people to the ER in a California city Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city are on the lookout for an aggressive squirrel that has sent at least two people to the emergency room.

Link: apnews.com/article/aggr...
Alt text: iMessage screenshot shows link to above article and response reads: “I saw that! Omg!
Not in my backyard (NIMBY!) I hope”

Love to see my mom using the term “NIMBY,” though incorrectly, albeit about a rabid squirrel on the loose

That the US government is basically doing extrajudicial killings in detention centers should be bigger news.